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Posted:
Fri May 07, 2004 8:40 amby escotregen
Susan Baird's were erected in Downfield Street, Tollcross - just adjacent to Braidfauld Street
Posted:
Fri May 07, 2004 11:13 amby martin
If a former LP moves house, do their lampposts move with them?
Actually, something's just occurred to me - Lord Provost, and lamp post. Both can be abbreviated to LP. Coincidence?
Posted:
Fri May 07, 2004 12:36 pmby red_kola
martin wrote:If a former LP moves house, do their lampposts move with them?
Actually, something's just occurred to me - Lord Provost, and lamp post. Both can be abbreviated to LP. Coincidence?
Lally, Pat. I smell a conspiracy.
Do they get a magic wardrobe and some turkish delight as well?
Posted:
Fri May 07, 2004 2:25 pmby David M
I know it is a nightmare when the lamposts themselves are Listed for their architectural significance, and then moved around - makes it difficult to find em !!!!!
David M
Posted:
Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:20 pmby martin
Digging up a rather old topic, here's Michael Kelly's lamps.
Posted:
Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:04 pmby Timchilli
Is Liz Cameron's the only LP property with one single lamp? In fact, her lamp is not free-standing -- instead it is fastened to the facade of her house.
Tim.
Posted:
Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:57 pmby crusty_bint
31 Queen Mary Ave, Crosshill
Posted:
Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:55 pmby Apollo
Info:
These lamps were originally referred to as bailies lamps. In olden days, bailies (senior elected councillors) could expect to have a special gas lamp installed outside their homes, so members of the public would know where they lived. The custom has now largely died out, for reasons of cost, but also because nowadays there is no guarantee that that the bailie won't live twenty storeys up a tower block, rather than an elegant town house
Posted:
Mon May 09, 2005 12:37 pmby TC1
The Queen Mary Avenue Lamps were for Peter McCann.
Posted:
Mon May 09, 2005 4:08 pmby Vinny the Mackem
My first boss was an ex-LP and, when coming to fit the lamp-posts, told them to bugger off, so never had the lamps installed!
Lord provost lamps
Posted:
Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:24 amby Raymond
Came across this forum only recently. The Lamps in Riddrie were/are in Riddrie Crescent off Riddrie Knowes. I think that they belonged to Sir Myer Galpern.
Myer Galpern
Posted:
Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:01 pmby retired tiger
He lived on Great Western Road about half a mile west of Anniesland Cross.
He was the first Jewish Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Photies will be took if his lamps are still there.
Tenemental Lamps
Posted:
Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:45 pmby Dexter St. Clair
There was a pair on the South Side that hung ootside a close.
Re: Tenemental Lamps
Posted:
Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:02 pmby crusty_bint
Dexter St. Clair wrote:There was a pair on the South Side that hung ootside a close.
Prince Edward St? Page one of this thread?
Posted:
Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:39 amby Dexter St. Clair
The very ones Crusty, Thanks for the photograph. I'm still trying to recall who was the Lord Provost or does it go back to the days of the Baillies.
